Cicadology (CICADAS) with Gene Kritsky

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

They are numerous. They are patient. They are COMING for the United States in droves this spring: They are cicadas. *The* Cicada guy Dr. Gene Kritsky joins to chat all about the annual cicadas you may see every summer vs. the periodical ones that cycle through the states in broods of giant numbers. Learn how they survive underground for decades, what they are doing down there, all about their lifecycle, who eats them and why, plus get inspired to take a cicada safari, download Cicada Safari, and appreciate their sexually desperate songs, which can be as loud as an ambulance. By the end, you’ll want to don a bug costume and hitchhike to the Midwest. (Don’t do that.) Dr. Gene Kritsky’s new cicada book: Periodical Cicadas: The Brood X Edition Download the Cicada Safari app at the Apple Store or Google Play Store. Gene’s website: genekritsky.com Also see CicadaMania.com, and follow Instagram.com/CicadaMania A donation was made to Mount Saint Joseph’s cicada research in the School of Behavioral and Natural Sciences Sponsor links: www.alieward.com/ologies-sponsors More links at: alieward.com/ologies/cicadalogy Gene’s wife Jessee J. Smith is a silversmith who makes bug jewelry. Check it out! Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes! Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0	Oh hey, it's your friend's older sister who taught you to swear in French.
0:03.7	Alley Ward, back with an episode, I have waited most of my life for no exaggeration.
0:08.4	When I first came up with allergies as a concept, it was partly just a jerk and expert into
0:12.5	talking to me about cicadas.
0:14.1	If this weren't the 13th month of a global pandemic, I would have recorded this in an Ohio
0:19.6	backyard instead of over the internet.
0:21.9	I would have hitchhiked there in a bug costume holding a brood 10 or bust sign and I would
0:27.3	have meant it.
0:28.3	This is the spring that bug lovers have waited 17 years for, but before we cover ourselves
0:35.1	in discarded exoskeletons, let's say some thanks to the backbone of the show patrons.
0:41.2	Thank you so much.
0:42.2	You can submit questions to theologist by joining patreon.com slash allergies.
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0:50.4	My heart is not expensive.
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1:02.6	I have read every review ever left.
1:05.3	Including this one this week by Neutral Viking who said, I applied to a PhD program because
1:11.6	of allergies.
1:12.6	They say I started listening to allergies in 2019 during one of the lowest points of my
1:16.0	life.
1:17.0	I had never been one for science, but decided to give the podcast a shot after a friend
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